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Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele: I Don’t Understand The Fear Of Gun Registration
tpm ^ | 4/9/2013 | DAVID TAINTOR

Posted on 04/10/2013 8:10:04 PM PDT by tobyhill

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday said he doesn't understand why gun owners fear the registration of their firearms.

"I don't get the fear of registration," Steele said on MSNBC. "I don't get the, the concern about trafficking. Are we saying that we want criminals to, you know, make … back-alley sales out of the trunks of their cars?"

Steele was part of a panel on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown," during which former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said that responsible gun owners insure their guns, which means they're registered. "I mean, I don't understand," she said.

MSNBC host Chuck Todd agreed with Steele. "It feels like we're protecting the rights of the paranoid about government, rather than, sort of, the reasonable," he said.

As TPM has reported, the National Rifle Association has long warned that expanding background checks would lead to a national gun registry.

(Excerpt) Read more at livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; dictators; guncontrol; gunfightsration; gunregistration; history; idiot; leadstodisarm; michaelsteele; registration; secondamendment; steppingstone; stupidparty
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To: tobyhill

i really doubt he doesn’t understand the concern. I really get offended when they try to pass off their lies like they don’t get it when they totally do. It’s growing mighty thin. In short I hate it when republicans treat us to feigned ignorance like the democrats always do.


21 posted on 04/10/2013 8:21:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: tobyhill

If I can understand it anyone can.


22 posted on 04/10/2013 8:21:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: neverdem; narses; SunkenCiv; MHGinTN; xsmommy; tioga; secret garden; Texan5; Trueblackman
RINO's never understand that is why they keep losing national elections.

True. Very true.

Is it “Washington” who changes local conservatives into DC-liberals? Or is it 20-30 years of DC-liberal news bias that slowly changes them into liberals by filtering their words to AND from the original republicans? Or do only liberal republicans get into positions of GROPe leadership BECAUSE they are actually liberals?

23 posted on 04/10/2013 8:21:23 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Trueblackman

I don’t think they understand it at all. All their friends in NYC & DC see no problem. I don’t think they understand that they are never going to win NY again, probably never win CA again, and their ONLY hope is a huge showing in between.

They called for money last night, and I once again told them I don’t give money to Pro-homosexual, anti-gun, pro-abortion people. They don’t get it, but I do - they are NOT on my side. Right now, it seems like no one is...

Short of California dropping into the ocean (at least LA & SF), I see no reason to think the US will ever be great again.


24 posted on 04/10/2013 8:21:34 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

He still has contacts inside the GOP and I’m sure he’s just repeating RINO talk.


25 posted on 04/10/2013 8:21:50 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

And registering guns stops school, theater, and army base massacres... how?


26 posted on 04/10/2013 8:21:57 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: tobyhill

Well Mike,do you understand the fear some people have of living in a totalitarian country?


27 posted on 04/10/2013 8:22:31 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: tobyhill

It’s very simple, Mike. You’re a tool.
First him, then Bonehead.
Where do they get these guys? NYT classified ads?


28 posted on 04/10/2013 8:22:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: cyn
Great. It’s all of them, across the board.

Yes, it is.

29 posted on 04/10/2013 8:24:07 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: ealgeone

“Ex” is irrelevant.

Why he was ever elected chairman in the first place is far more relevant.


30 posted on 04/10/2013 8:24:40 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
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To: tobyhill

Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele: I Don’t Understand The Fear Of Gun Registration (VIDEO)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3006239/posts


31 posted on 04/10/2013 8:25:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: Farmer Dean
W’ll just who’s screwed.These people are going to set into motion a chain of events that will be beyond their control.

And, we the People will reap the "benefits" of it. Terrible stuff!

32 posted on 04/10/2013 8:25:20 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: tobyhill

“Clueless” doesn’t even begin to describe these fools.


33 posted on 04/10/2013 8:26:17 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: tobyhill
Are we saying that we want criminals to, you know, make … back-alley sales out of the trunks of their cars?"

Are you saying that gun registration will stop criminals from making back-alley sales out of the trunks of their cars?

Dear Michael Steele: Stop disappointing us. Improve your game, and I mean considerably, or go away.

(from an ex-Michael Steele fan.)

34 posted on 04/10/2013 8:26:41 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

I’m going with the latter.

They’re liberal/Leftists who have worked tirelessly to fulfill plank 15 of the 45 declared goals of Communists in the USA.


35 posted on 04/10/2013 8:26:48 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Mr Rogers

Short of California dropping into the ocean (at least LA & SF), I see no reason to think the US will ever be great again.

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Actually I take complete issue with that assertion.

With one proviso:

GOP start acting American, and incidentally start acting like opposition. But do both of those things.

Stop selling stuff from China. Stop exporting production. Bring back factories, and set-up our import and export laws in America so that we continue with BALANCED trade with everyone in the world.

But perhaps most important is, take America’s side in every standoff.

That is how the GOP will stand tall again.


36 posted on 04/10/2013 8:26:54 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Farmer Dean

I knew what you meant, right away.


37 posted on 04/10/2013 8:27:19 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: tobyhill

Same reason he fears registering illegals is the same reason we fear registration.


38 posted on 04/10/2013 8:29:19 PM PDT by NoLibZone (History teaches us that every nation's electoral process is as free & fair as its press.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Perhaps if the GOP would try to win elections by EXPLAINING conservatism, instead of ABANDONING it, we would have a future.


39 posted on 04/10/2013 8:29:34 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: tobyhill
Here's a clue, Steele:


40 posted on 04/10/2013 8:30:36 PM PDT by Rebelbase (1929-1950's, 20+years for full recovery. How long this time?)
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